Q: (from Stephen)

… If the customer had office 365 could he set up users to only access the folders they are allowed to on the Sharepoint Team site?

A:

My understanding is that all Office 365 plans (P &E) are granted 50 Partner Access Licenses (PALs) to be assigned to outside users via their LiveID email address. Only the Office 365 E plans allow you to add more (up to 1000) and are billed at the rate of $2.50 per block of 50.

From our Small Business & Professional Service Description:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13779

I opened the posted document, Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Service Description-October.docx, looked for “external”, and found:

Appendix B: SharePoint Online Detailed Feature Summary

Limited to 50 external users/month

From our Enterprise Service Descriptions:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602

I went to the Microsoft SharePoint Online for Enterprises Service Description.docx, where I searched for the keyword “PAL” and found:

50 PALs are included per tenant. Current “Feature Preview” allows for usage rights of up to 1000 external users without requiring additional PALs. Microsoft reserves the right to charge for additional PALs beyond 50 at the time the next major Office 365 update.

  Steve Deming